Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis

by Neil J. Skolnick (Editor), Susan C. Warshaw (Editor)

Overview

A watershed in the articulation of the relational psychoanalytic paradigm, this volume offers a rich overview of issues currently being addressed by clinicians and theoreticians writing from a variety of complementary relational viewpoints. Chapter topics cover the roots of the relational orientation in early psychoanalytic thinking, the impact of relational consideration on developmental theory, relational conceptions of "self" and "other," and clinical applications of relational perspectives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780881631074
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Neil J. Skolnick, Susan C. Warshaw

Table of Contents

Foreword, Ghent Introduction, Skolnick, Warshaw 1. True Selves, False Selves, and the Ambiguity of Authenticity, Mitchell 2. Self Psychology: The Self and Its Vicissitudes Within a Relational Matrix, Fosshage 3. Recognition and Destructoin: An Outline of Intersubjectivity, Benjamin 4. A Dyadic Systems View of Communication, Beebe, Jaffe, Lachmann 5. The Contribution of Mother-Infant Mutual Influence in the Origins of Self- and Objection Representations, Beebe, Lachmann 6. Dialogues as Transitional Space: A Rapprochement of Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psycholinguistics, Harris 7. Mutative Factors in Child Psychoanalysis: A Comparison of Diverse Relational Perspectives, Warshaw 8. Relational Perspectives on Child Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Altman 9. Attachment Research: An Approach to a Developmental Relational Perspective, Silverman 10. Secrets in Clinical Work: A Relational Point of View, Skolnick, Davies 11. Money Matters in Psychoanalysis, Aron, Hirsch 12. On the Occurrence of the Isakower Phenomenon in a Schizoid Patient, Bromberg 13. Eros Reclaimed: Recovering Freud's Relational Theory, Reisner 14. Some Historical Aspects of Contemporary Pluralistic Psychoanalysis, Wolstein